Baseline: Infrastructure

Introductory11 Steps6h 21m10 Credits

If you are a novice cloud developer looking for hands-on practice with GCP’s core infrastructure services, do yourself a favor and enroll in this quest. As a student, you will get practical experience by taking labs that dive into Cloud Storage, computing engines like Kubernetes, and key application services like Stackdriver and Deployment Manager. By taking this quest, you will develop invaluable skills that apply to any GCP project. 1-minute videos walk you through key concepts for each lab.

Infrastructure

Prerequisites

This Quest builds on a basic understanding of the Google Cloud Platform, the Console and its Services. It is recommended that the student have earned a Badge by completing the hands-on labs in the GCP Essentials Quest before beginning.

This lab shows you how to use Google Cloud Platform Console to create a Cloud IoT Core device registry and register a device. It also shows you how to run a sample to connect a device and publish device telemetry events.

Google Compute Engine lets you create and run virtual machines on Google infrastructure. In this lab you create a Windows Server instance in the Google Compute Engine and access it with RDP. Watch a short preview, Launch a Windows Server Instance, GCP Essentials.